[mythtv-users] Recording Priority = 99 not a trump all?

[Douglas Peale]

On 06/22/2010 01:30 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Douglas Peale
> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net <mailto:Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 06/22/2010 01:17 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>     > On 06/22/2010 04:11 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
>     >> On 06/22/2010 12:52 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> I've set a rule to record the World Cup games with priority at
>     99, yet
>     >>> there are things Myth is scheduling to record instead with much lower
>     >>> priority. Yes, the games are being replayed and Myth scheduled the
>     >>> replayed games, but how do I tell myth to record these games first,
>     >>> even if something else won't record?
>     >>>
>     >> I've seen other things that make believe the priority scheme is
>     >> broken. I've given all of my SD stations for which I have HD
>     >> equivalents a priority of -10. And yet I see the SD stations scheduled
>     >> for recording when the same show is available in HD on 3
>     >> tuners with no conflicts.
>     >> I finally went and disabled all SD channels for which I had HD
>     >> equivalents.
>     >>
>     >> At the moment, MythTV is scheduled to record two copies of the same
>     >> show on the same channel at the same time on different
>     >> tuners (one on cable, one OTA). The channel numbers are the same and
>     >> the channel names are the same.
>     >>
>     >
>     > All I'm willing to say at this point (because I don't have time for the
>     > usual argument with 100 users) is that priority is not /when/ to record
>     > nor /where/ to record.  Priority is simply /what/ to record.  MythTV is
>     > recording what you want (within the constraints you've applied***), so,
>     > there's nothing broken.
>     >
>     > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html
>     >
>     > Mike
>     >
>     > ***One very important constraint being:
>     > Reschedule higher priorities
>     > Move higher priority programs to other cards and showings when
>     resolving
>     > conflicts. This can be used to record lower priority programs that
>     would
>     > otherwise not be recorded, but risks missing a higher priority program
>     > if the schedule changes.
>     >
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>     Channel priority determines what to record, not what channel to
>     choose? That does not make much sense.
> 
> 
> Except that there are not "priority classes" in Myth (AFAIK), just a
> single priority value.  Adding to this value via channel or recording
> rule just increase the value and does not alter behavior.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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Please explain the intent of tuner priority and channel priority then because I have it completely misunderstood.

I was under the impression that if you increased the the priority of a channel over another, that, everything else being equal,
Myth would choose the channel with the higher priority to record a show if the same show happens to be on two or more channels.